The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

J chicken.
/ PopPYsEEp GAZE, sold by New York bakers, is
J said to promote seep.
/ The PRINcE oFWALEs is said to be an expert
| performer ON thebanjo.
! MAssACHUsErrsps pays for maintaining her con-
victs $4,000 var more than they produce
The wheat Gro, of Oregon is the largest ever
known. The surplus for export will be fully
| AS, 900 tons
The South Sea Islands, at their last mission
airy meeting, raised 1881 for new yacht to
carry the Gospe 10 New Guinea.
The people ofthis country spend $s2OOo.oOo
year for silks. Less than half of it is woven
here. The rest comes from abroad.
IT IS CLAIMED that the price of sulphuric acid
will soon be redtce one-half on account of
discovery recently made in England
MANY of the louisiana and Mississippi colored
| people who live il Southern Kansas are cultivat-
! ing cotton with considerable success.
The remains o. boy who was drowned nine
| years ago, were ound in England recently, and
| recognized by his boots and tooth
NAE PATTI has ordered banjo from Mr..
Funkenstein, of Liverpool and it is supposed
she intends 20 learn to use it herself
THERE are still 200 colonists at Topolobampo
who are suffering for want of food. The Mexi-
can farmers hive contributed food from time to
time.
THE assessed value of ths property of the
South has increased over 5000 600 600 in the past
seven years, orat the rate of about Sl25, 100000
each year.
CARBoLIc ACID is recommended for moisten-
ing the tools with which metals are worked. The
efficiency of the grindstone is said TO be greatly
increased by this means.
A FOX that had been kept captive by Con-
necticut farmer escaped a few nights ago, and
was found the next morning, caught by its chain
in neighbours henroost
A TAPLEYvILE (l1Ass) MAN walked two miles
TO the post office of a neighboring village and
back again to get postage stamp that would
not STICK exchanged for good one.
Miss NELLIE SHAW and Mrs. /. P Longfenow
held the reins in a horse trot at a Maine fair
Miss Shaw's trotter won in 3:42, but the com
mttee divided the purse of Sc evenly.
A GILBoA IN. Y MAN has made queer look
ing machine, which he guards with jealous care.
He believes he has discovered perpetual motion.
People come miles to see the machine
THE electric motor gains ground so rapidly
that it is hard tokeep pace with all the new
applications One of the motors of recent com
merclal introduction is already in use in over
100 industries
ARIZONA is about to operate a dam which in
magnitude surpaSses anything in the country
The reservoir will store 10 900 600 900 gallons of
water for frrigatihg thousands of acres of placer
and grazing lands
A STEAMSHIP AGrNT estimates that Americans
spend S5000G,000 a year in Europe. He esti-
mates the number of Americans who cross the
ocean annually at about 100000. The cost of
each one will average say $500.
Two FIN BACK WHALES were caught in weir
at Campobello, Me-, last week One escaped
before low water, but the other was killed He
was twenty-six feet long and four feet through
and estimated TO yield ten or twelve barrels of
oil.
FROM government reports just published in
England it appears that there are sci ,092 per
sons engaged in and about mines of whom 5 56s
are females above ground. There was one loss
OF life during the past year for every GA persons
employed.
EIGHTY YEARS AGO society in Turkey forbade
women to learn to read. The Sultan has now
started schools for women. See what Chris
tianity is doing. Gen. Lew Wallace. of Ben
Hur fame, commendS the action of the almost
Christian man.
THE pastor of a colored church in Bradford
Pa, complains that he gets only 1872 salary,
that there are no perquisites. and that upon the
occasion of the only marriage in his church
within year, the Presiding Elder did the lob
and pocketed the fee.
THERE are now twenty seven vessels engaged
in missionary work in different parts of the
world under the auspices Of sixteen societies. of
these missionary vessels sixteen are running on
the coasts or rivers of Africa and six among the
islands of the Pacific Ocean.
TEXAS PAPERS say that the Rio Grande is
running so low at that place that it is only ankle
deep, and that it is expected to dry up alto
gether before winter. The prospect is contem
nlafp1 with alarm bv the frliit ruiS
yardlsts OF that part of the country.
THE FLOATING ISLAND on Lake Derwentwater
England, has again made its appearance II
came TO the surface of the water a wear or two
ago, near Lodore, after complete submersion for
nearly three years. The cause of the phenome-
non mas never been satisfactorily explained
AJACKsoN CMIcH) JUSTICE OF THE PEACE owns
an intelligent spani i that is cunning When
ever he is wandering abroad without his muzzIe
and spies an officer he HES himself to the near
est alley and puts tin can over his nose. keep
ing it there until the policeman passes by and
the danger is over
Mr.. MURPHY, of Royalton, n Y, and the
widow Rogers, of Sprngbrook, met by chance
few nights ego in the Lockport police head
quarters. where he had been taken for drunken
ness and she for vagrancy. He popDed fine
question through the bars and she gave her con
sent. and in the morning Justice Hickey mar
ried them.
YOUNG WOMAN of Muskegon, Mich, so an.
noyed the neighbors by her piano playing that
they made complaint 10 the police The mat
ter was investigated, ana policeman was sent
to tell her she must be more reasonable about
her music. ThereupOn she began PLAYING louder
than ever, stopping only for refreshments. and
kept 1t up until she fell from the piano stool in
commissions
THE Growers quest over the bodies of the
hundred and odd dead from the fire in the Ex-
eter theatre, cenSured the authorities for allow
ing such building to be used as a theatre. and
added that the jury unanimously consider the
non-supply of any refreshments to them for
several hours blot on the legal system OF the
country" The Coroner made them strike this
sentence out, and the London papers sngrest
that, with so many dead to think about the iurv
ought to have forgotten its beer.
JOHN BRIGHT. writing to a Canada man on the
temperance question, says: ''The whole ones
ton and its solution mnst depend on public
opinion. which may agree to restrictions which
are important, but will for long time and ner-
haps always, refuse the absolute prohihition
IL seems mat a severe system of taxation is
almost the only remedy which can be adopted
with much hope of success With Canada and
with the temperance party in the United states
| hope and wish that the temperance cause NAV
prosper"
SOME YEATS AGO Secretary Lamar had in his
possession weak looking Jersey bull calf The
dropping animal seemed ready to give I'M tho
struggle for life, when its owner conferred unon
u the narle senator George G-aham Vest
From that moment the calf began To aoureh
Nothing seemed to pull down the vest" II